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14-letter words containing a, n, d, i, p, l

  • double parking — the activity or offence of parking a vehicle in a traffic lane
  • double spacing — text layout: extra space between lines
  • dovetail plane — a plane for cutting tongues and grooves with parallel or inclined sides.
  • dual ownership — the state of owning something jointly with someone else
  • duchamp-villon — Raymond [re-mawn] /rɛˈmɔ̃/ (Show IPA), 1876–1918, French sculptor (brother of Jacques Villon and Marcel Duchamp).
  • dwelling place — a dwelling.
  • electropainted — Painted electrophoretically.
  • encephalitides — Plural form of encephalitis.
  • encyclopaediae — Irregular plural form of encyclopaedia.
  • encyclopaedism — Alt form encyclopedism.
  • encyclopaedist — Alternative spelling of encyclopedist.
  • encyclopedical — (American spelling) alternative spelling of encyclopaedical.
  • endoscopically — By means of an endoscope.
  • exploding star — an irregular variable star, such as a nova, supernova, or flare star, in which rapid increases in luminosity occur, caused by some form of explosion
  • fiddle pattern — a pattern of spoon or fork having a handle that narrows abruptly from a broad, flat upper part and terminates with a pronounced shoulder above the bowl or tines.
  • fundoplication — (surgery) An operation in which the gastric fundus (upper part) of the stomach is wrapped, or plicated, around the lower end of the esophagus and stitched in place, reinforcing the closing function of the lower esophageal sphincter. The esophageal hiatus is also narrowed down by sutures to prevent or treat concurrent hiatal hernia, in which the fundus slides up through the enlarged esophageal hiatus of the diaphragm.
  • gridwall panel — A gridwall panel is a metal grid that can be hung on a wall and used for displaying goods.
  • half-pedalling — a technique of piano playing in which the sustaining pedal is raised and immediately depressed thus allowing the lower strings to continue sounding
  • haplodiplontic — (biology, of a life cycle) Having multicellular diploid and haploid stages.
  • hydroponically — Using hydroponics.
  • hypoadrenalism — underactivity of the adrenal gland, as in Addison's disease.
  • hypomixolydian — (in medieval church music) of or relating to the last of the eight scales
  • hypoventilated — Simple past tense and past participle of hypoventilate.
  • impersonalised — to make impersonal: The dial system impersonalized the telephone.
  • impersonalized — Simple past tense and past participle of impersonalize.
  • imponderabilia — Those things that are imponderable.
  • inclined plane — one of the simple machines, a plane surface inclined to the horizon, or forming with a horizontal plane any angle but a right angle. Compare machine (def 4b).
  • indecipherable — not decipherable; illegible.
  • indecipherably — not decipherable; illegible.
  • indecomposable — incapable of being decomposed.
  • indemnity plan — An indemnity plan is a healthcare plan that allows policyholders to choose any healthcare provider they wish, and charges them a fee depending on the rules of the policy.
  • india pale ale — a pale-colored ale with a higher hops and alcohol content than average. Abbreviation: IPA.
  • indispensables — Plural form of indispensable.
  • inland passage — Inside Passage
  • inside caliper — a caliper whose legs turn outward so that it can accurately measure inside dimensions, as the inside diameter of a pipe.
  • inverted pleat — a reverse box pleat, having the flat fold turned in.
  • island-hopping — to travel from island to island, especially to visit a series of islands in the same chain or area.
  • isolated point — Mathematics. a point in a set such that the neighborhood of the point is devoid of any other points belonging to the set.
  • latency period — Psychoanalysis. the stage of personality development, extending from about four or five years of age to the beginning of puberty, during which sexual urges appear to lie dormant.
  • lead poisoning — Pathology. a toxic condition produced by ingestion, inhalation, or skin absorption of lead or lead compounds, resulting in various dose-related symptoms including anemia, nausea, muscle weakness, confusion, blindness, and coma. Also called plumbism, saturnism. this condition occurring in adults whose work involves contact with lead products.
  • lindelof space — a topological space having the property that every cover consisting of open sets has a subcover consisting of a countable number of subsets.
  • linen cupboard — airing cupboard
  • lipari islands — a group of volcanic islands under Italian administration off the N coast of Sicily: remains that form a continuous record from Neolithic times. Chief town: Lipari. Pop: 10 554 (2001). Area: 114 sq km (44 sq miles)
  • listed company — A listed company is a company whose shares are quoted on a stock exchange.
  • malapportioned — (of a state or other political unit) poorly apportioned, especially divided, organized, or structured in a manner that prevents large sections of a population from having equitable representation in a legislative body.
  • middle persian — the Persian language at a stage that begins c300 b.c. and includes Pahlavi (attested from the 3rd to the 7th centuries a.d.) as well as the West Iranian literatures (3rd–10th centuries a.d.) of religions carried outside Persia. Abbreviation: MPers.
  • mind uploading — (application)   The science fiction concept of copying one's mind into an artificial body or computer.
  • municipal bond — a bond issued by a state, county, city, or town, or by a state authority or agency to finance projects.
  • non-repudiable — to reject as having no authority or binding force: to repudiate a claim.
  • noncomplicated — (esp of a medical condition or procedure) not involving complications
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